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Emile Antoine Bourdelle was one of the leaders of twentieth century
monumental sculpture and qualified by Rodin as “a pioneer of the
future”. Unlike academic sculptors and their moralizing
grandiloquence and superfluous ornamentation, Bourdelle chose to depict
rigorous structure and a powerful rhythm, likely reflective of his
peasant past. The artist's goal was to capture the whole and
recreate it, a very dissimilar approach to most of his
contemporaries. The great philo (showing 500 of 4921 characters).

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